HotIgneous Intruder:Absolutely no reason for special operations troops to be training with local civilian police.No. Reason. At. All.

Bzzt. Wrong.

US Special Forces trains with the local civilian population of North Carolina on a regular basis, for example.

Operation ROBIN SAGE is Phase IV of US Army Special Forces training, conducted over 28 days and across 15 counties of North Carolina, where the Green Beret-trainees interact with local civilians who are in on the training scenario (the 15 counties depict the "People's Republic of Pineland" a fictional totalitarian state with the people wanting to rise up in a revolution).